Literacies in Times of Disruption
Living and Learning During a Pandemic
- 238 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The wide-ranging disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic altered the experiences of place, technology, time, and school for students. This book explores how students' responses to these extraordinary times shaped their identities as learners and writers, as well as their perceptions of education.
This book traces the voices of a diverse group of university students, from first-year to doctoral students, over the first two years of the pandemic. Students discussed the effects of having their homes forced to serve as classrooms, work, and living spaces, as they also navigated much of school and life through their digital screens. The affective and embodied experiences of this disruption and uncertainty, and the memories and narratives constructed from those experiences, challenged and remade students' relationships with place, digital media, and school itself. Understanding students' perceptions of these times has implications for imagining innovative and empathetic approaches to literacy and learning going forward.
In a time when disruptions, including but not limited to the pandemic, continue to ripple and resonate through education and culture, this book provides important insights for researchers and teachers in literacy and writing studies, education, media studies, and any seeking a better understanding of students and learning in this precarious age.
2025 recipient of the Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research from the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Disruption and Emergence in Extraordinary Times
- Interchapter: The Timeline of the Pandemic at One University
- 2 Affect and Embodiment in Writing During the Pandemic
- 3 The Uncertain and Shifting Social Contexts of Emotion and School
- 4 Memory, Narrative, and the Shaping of Identities Through the Pandemic
- 5 Going to “School” or Staying “Home”: Remaking Places and Place
- 6 Rethinking Relationships With, and Through, Digital Media
- 7 Writing Out of Time: Temporal Disruptions and Literacy Experiences
- 8 Experiences of Education and Relationships of Learning in the Pandemic
- 9 Conclusion: The Ongoing Ripples from Disruptions for Literacy and Learning
- Index